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" Take but degree away, untune that string, And, hark, what discord follows ; each thing meets In mere oppugnancy : the bounded waters Should lift their bosoms higher than the shores And make a sop of all this solid globe : Strength should be lord of imbecility,... "
Troilus and Cressida. Othello - Page 29
by William Shakespeare - 1788
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An Inquiry Into the Philosophy and Religion of Shakspere

William John Birch - Religion in literature - 1848 - 570 pages
...the language of Mackintosh — it would end in universal destruction : — Then every thing include itself in power, Power into will, will into appetite...universal wolf, So doubly seconded with will and power, Must make perforce an universal prey, And last eat up himself. What a natural and fine opportunity...
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Shakespeare and the Legal Imagination

Ian Ward - Drama - 1999 - 258 pages
...seem to have forgotten the lessons of Aristotle, that government must be an accommodation of extremes, 'Force should be right - or rather, right and wrong,/ Between whose endless jar justice resides'. Without such constraints, of self-determined reason, a polity will 'at least eat' itself up (1.3. 11...
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Henry V, War Criminal?: And Other Shakespeare Puzzles

John Sutherland, Cedric Watts - Literary recreations - 2000 - 244 pages
...order: Take but degree away, untune that string, And hark what discord follows. . . . Then everything includes itself in power, Power into will, will into...universal wolf, So doubly seconded with will and power, Must make perforce an universal prey, And last eat up himself.4 (1.3.108-9, 1 18-23) Having insisted...
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Troilus and Cressida

William Shakespeare - Drama - 2000 - 196 pages
...113 Strength should be lord of imbecility, 114 And the rude son should strike his father dead; 115 Force should be right; or rather right and wrong, Between whose endless jar justice resides, 117 Should lose their names, and so should justice too. Then everything include itself in power, 119...
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Who's who in Shakespeare

Peter Quennell, Hamish Johnson - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 246 pages
...lift their bosoms higher than the shores, And make a sop of all this solid globe. Strength should be a lord of imbecility, And the rude son should strike...universal wolf, So doubly seconded with will and power, Must make perforce an universal prey, And last eat up himself, (i.iii) Ulysses does not consistently...
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Philosophical and Theological Opinions

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 2001 - 552 pages
...discordant appetites and imagined self-interests the one only common measure, which taken away, — Force should be right ; or, rather right and wrong,—...Power into will, will into appetite ; And appetite a universal wolf, So doubly seconded with will and power, Must make perforce a universal prey ! Thrice...
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莎士比亞通論: 喜劇

顏元叔 - Comedy - 2001 - 838 pages
...thing melts In mere oppugnancy; the bounded waters Should lift their bosoms higher than the shores, And make a sop of all this solid globe; Strength should...son should strike his father dead; Force should be right@or rather, right and wrong, Between whose endless jar justice resides, Should lose their names,...
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Shakespeare: la invención de lo humano

Harold Bloom - Characters and characteristics in literature - 2001 - 750 pages
...Nunca osa entrometerse, en el alma del Estado, Que tiene una operación más divina 9. Then everything includes itself in power, / Power into will, will...universal wolf, / So doubly seconded with will and power, / Must make perforce an universal prey, /And last eat up himself. [I. iii. 119-24] Que lo que la voz...
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Paradigms Found: Feminist, Gay, and New Historicist Readings of Shakespeare

Pilar Hidalgo - Feminist literatuurkritiek - 2001 - 168 pages
...The title of the book is taken from a quotation from Tnrihis and Cressida: Then every thing include itself in power. Power into wilL will into appetite....universal wolf (So doubly seconded with will and power), Must make perforce an universal prey. And last eat up himself. (l.3.ll9,24) It is ironical that the...
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The Sovereign Flower: On Shakespeare as the Poet of Royalism, Together with ...

George Wilson Knight - Drama - 1958 - 336 pages
...thing meets In mere oppugnancy: the bounded waters Should lift their bosom higher than the shores, And make a sop of all this solid globe: Strength should...Power into will, will into appetite; And appetite, a universal wolf, So doubly seconded with will and power, Must make perforce a universal prey, And...
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